Discovery

"Lorem ipsum" text is derived from sections 1.10.323 of Cicero's De finibus bonorum et
malorum (On the Ends of Goods and Evils, or alternatively [About] The Purposes of Good
and Evil).[2] The original passage began: Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia
dolor sit amet consectetur adipisci velit (translation: "Neither is there anyone who loves,
pursues or desires pain itself because it is pain").
It is not known exactly when the text acquired its current standard form; it may have been as
late as the 1960s. Dr. Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar who was the publications director
at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, discovered the source of the passage sometime
before 1982 while searching for instances of the Latin word "consectetur", rarely used in
classical literature.[1][a] The physical source of the Lorem Ipsum text may be the 1914 Loeb
Classical Library Edition of the De Finibus, where the Latin text finishes page 34 with
"Neque porro quisquam est qui do-" and begins page 36 with "lorem ipsum (et seq.)",
suggesting that the galley type of that page was scrambled to make the dummy text seen
today.